Family Stay: Comfortable, Uncomfortable or Neutral?
Group Activity
Individual time needed:10 minutes
Small group discussion time needed: 50 minutes
Chart reactions to scenarios – will I be comfortable, uncomfortable or neutral?
Situation
comfortable
uncomfortable
neutral
One or more of your host family members smokes a lot.
You are vegetarian but your host family prepared you a dish with meat in it.
Your host family does not go to bed before midnight.
You have to take a shower but there is no hot water coming out of the tap.
There is hot water in the shower but you were told your shower should only take 5 minutes.
Your host family has a dog.
Nobody in your host family speaks English.
Your host family’s house has thin walls and you can hear noise from other rooms and cars and noise from the street.
There is no air conditioning in your host family’s home.
Your host family is very interested in politics and they ask you your thoughts about the U.S. president.
The girlfriend or boyfriend of your host sibling hangs out with you and your host sibling most of the time during your family stay.
Your host sibling brings you to parties and people are drinking and smoking there.
Your host family eats a lot of fish.
Your host family doesn’t take you to as many places as your friend’s host family.
Your host siblings are younger than you, 11 and 13 years old.
With your peers in small groups, discuss how you would respond to the things that would make you uncomfortable. In English: come up with some solutions about how you might handle the situation. In the target language: if you need to communicate with your host family to address the situation, practice how you would say what you need to say to your host family member to convey your message.
Group Activity
Individual time needed: 10 minutes
Small group discussion time needed: 50 minutes
Chart reactions to scenarios – will I be comfortable, uncomfortable or neutral?
With your peers in small groups, discuss how you would respond to the things that would make you uncomfortable.
In English: come up with some solutions about how you might handle the situation.
In the target language: if you need to communicate with your host family to address the situation, practice how you would say what you need to say to your host family member to convey your message.